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A screenshot from the Japanese version of The Legend of Heroes: Trails beyond the Horizon.

19.06.2025

The Legend of Heroes: Trails beyond the Horizon is coming to Switch 2

I come bearing good news and bad news. The good? RPG The Legend of Heroes: Trails beyond the Horizon will be launching for Switch 2 alongside its previously announced PC and console versions. The bad? The game’s release window was originally set for this (Northern) fall, but that has now been pushed back a little to January 2026.…

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The Legend of Heroes: Trails beyond the Horizon is coming to Switch 2

June 19, 2025

News/NIS America

I come bearing good news and bad news. The good? RPG The Legend of Heroes: Trails beyond the Horizon will be launching for Switch 2 alongside its previously announced PC and console versions. The bad? The game’s release window was originally set for this (Northern) fall, but that has now…

The key art for Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth3: V Generation.

The Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth series launches in the West for PlayStation 4 this fall

June 19, 2025

Idea Factory International/News

While it will no longer be released in the West for Nintendo Switch, Idea Factory International is still bringing the Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;Birth series to the West, and the publisher has confirmed that the three titles will be released digitally and physically for PlayStation 4 this (Northern) fall. The trilogy…

A screenshot from Raidou Remastered by DigitallyDownloaded.net

Review: Raidou Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army (Sony PlayStation 5)

June 19, 2025

Atlus/JRPG/PlayStation 5/Reviews

Raidou Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army was originally released before Persona 3. That was a very different time for Atlus as a company and this entire property. Before Persona 4 and, particularly Persona 5, took the broader Shin Megami Tensei name to the mainstream, SMT were these dark…

A screenshot from Hello Stranger. Taken from behind a computer monitor, it shows Cam, a man with short hair and a green toque, looking at the monitor. You can see his apartment behind him.

Review: Hello Stranger (PC/Mac)

June 18, 2025

Indie/PC/Reviews

There is arguably no bigger name in the world of interactive films and FMV games than Paul Raschid, who directed The Complex (2020) and wrote and directed Five Dates (2020), The Gallery (2022), and Ten Dates (2023). And his games always drop at the best times; for example, online dating…

Nobunaga's Ambition Awakening Interview with DigitallyDownloaded.net

Two strategy titles and the Switch 2’s mouse controls: Testing this great feature where it matters most

June 17, 2025

Nintendo Switch 2/Reviews

As I mentioned in my review of the Nintendo Switch 2 hardware, one of the most impressive features in the Switch 2 is the ability to use the right Joy-Con as a mouse pointer. I fully expected that to be a dinky, silly gimmick, but as it turns out, it’s…

On the making of the SaGa Frontier 2 remaster

June 16, 2025

Interview/Interviews/Square Enix

Earlier this year Square Enix released a remaster of SaGa Frontier 2 (read our review here). It is one of the better entries in that marvellous B-side JRPG properties that the publisher owns, and the remaster more than did the game justice. Indeed it’s such a lovely, artful game that…

Review: Mario Kart World (Nintendo Switch 2)

June 16, 2025

Mario Kart/Nintendo Switch 2/Reviews

Mario Kart didn’t need to go open world. It was a much-vaunted feature of Mario Kart World leading up to its launch, and the moments where you’re dropped into the open world and left to just cruise around and complete little missions are, frankly, boring. Thankfully, everything else about the…

The key art for Atelier Resleriana: The Red Alchemist & the White Guardian.

Atelier Resleriana: The Red Alchemist & the White Guardian launches this September

June 16, 2025

Koei Tecmo/News

Publisher Koei Tecmo and developer Gust have announced a late September release date for Atelier Resleriana: The Red Alchemist & the White Guardian. To celebrate the big news, a first-look video was revealed, introducing new and familiar characters, and sharing a glimpse of the game system and world. The Western…

A newly-cropped version of Dee Dee in the DDNet news studio.

The catch-up coffee: June 16, 2025

June 16, 2025

catch-up coffee/News

Welcome to Digitally Downloaded’s weekly catch-up news feature, the catch-up coffee. Here, I bring you the best news you may have missed from last week. Grab the biggest mug you’ve got, fill it with your favourite brew, and catch up with us (and our favourite news anchor, Dee Dee)!…

The finest Heroes of Might & Magic-like (Songs of Conquest) is landing on Switch next week

June 13, 2025

News/Nintendo Switch

We haven’t actually reviewed it for one reason or another (mostly we’ve been too busy playing it), but Songs of Conquest is one of the best Heroes of Might & Magic-like games that has been released in a very long time. And now a Switch port is imminent. Songs of…

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Reviews

Review: Raidou Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army (Sony PlayStation 5)

June 19, 2025

Raidou Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army was originally released before Persona 3. That was a very different time for Atlus…

Review: Hello Stranger (PC/Mac)

June 18, 2025

There is arguably no bigger name in the world of interactive films and FMV games than Paul Raschid, who directed The Complex…

Two strategy titles and the Switch 2’s mouse controls: Testing this great feature where it matters most

June 17, 2025

As I mentioned in my review of the Nintendo Switch 2 hardware, one of the most impressive features in the Switch 2…

Review: Mario Kart World (Nintendo Switch 2)

June 16, 2025

Mario Kart didn’t need to go open world. It was a much-vaunted feature of Mario Kart World leading up to its launch,…

Videos

Podcast-in-Video: Getting nostalgic for Xenogears

December 6, 2023

Xenogears is an all-time classic, but the question is… could something like that even be made again today? That’s what we discuss…

Podcast-in-Video: The games we loved through 2023

December 5, 2023

As it is the last month of the year, it’s time to look back at all the games that were released this…

Interview with the producer and director of Dragon Quest Monsters Dark Prince by DigitallyDownloaded.net

Podcast-in-Video: The big game releases in December

December 5, 2023

Apologies that we’ve been absent from uploading these videos. Various technical issues prevented us from doing a video version of the podcast,…

Podcast-in-Video: The games we wouldn’t play on the train

September 7, 2023

Got a Nintendo Switch? At some stage you’ve probably taken it out in public. After all, gaming on the go is very…

Interviews

On the making of the SaGa Frontier 2 remaster

June 16, 2025

Earlier this year Square Enix released a remaster of SaGa Frontier 2 (read our review here). It is one of the better…

DigitallyDownloaded.net reviews Fantasian Neo Dimension

We got to Q & A the JRPG legend, Hironobu Sakaguchi, about Fantasian

January 30, 2025

It’s not every day that you get to interview one of your heroes, but that was certainly the case when I got…

A screenshot of the three leaders in Romance of the Three Kingdom 8 Remake.

Launch interview: On remaking Romance of the Three Kingdoms VIII

October 24, 2024

The remake of Romance of the Three Kingdoms VIII is now out in the wild, and it is a very good game.…

A 4X game about… a failing empire? An interview with JG Games

October 3, 2024

Most 4X and empire-building strategy games are focused on building an empire up. Starting from humble roots and then carefully managing the…

Gadgets

A photo of the Nintendo Switch 2 and associated peripherals

by Matt

June 10, 2025

Gadget/Gadget Review/Hardware/Hardware Review/Nintendo/Nintendo Switch 2

Hardware Review: Nintendo Switch 2

To put this review very simply: The Nintendo Switch is my favourite console of all time, and the Switch 2 is the sequel to that. You could argue that this is almost shockingly safe by Nintendo, given the whimsical direction that the company has taken with most of its modern hardware refreshes, but at the same time this is a…

Gadget/Gadget Review/Hardware/Hardware Review/Nintendo Switch 2

The Nintendo Switch 2 really is the sequel to the best console of all time

There are over 1,100 games registered to my Nintendo Switch account. When I was recently scrolling through them, I saw some titles that I don’t even remember playing, let alone buying. Overall, however, I’ve had so much joy from so many of those games that it would be hard for…